Good Grief

Here are some resources mentioned in the Good Grief: How can we navigate sorrow and loss in life-giving ways? webcast conversation between Douglas Mckelvey, Mark Buchanan, and Carolyn Arends.

Resources Recommended by Mark Buchanan

• Books by Mark 

  • Spiritual Rhythm: Being with Jesus Every Season of Your Soul

  • David: Rise

  • God Walk: Moving at the Speed of Your Soul

  • Your Church Is Too Safe: Why Following Christ Turns the World Upside

  • Hidden In Plain Sight

  • The Rest Of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath

  • Things Unseen: Living in Light of Forever

  • The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God

  • Your God Is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can’t Control

• Resources mentioned by Mark 

  • Cornelius Plantinga: Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin

  • Ernest Becker: The Denial of Death

• Mark’s Website

• Mark’s Social Media: Facebook, and Twitter,

Resources recommended by Douglas McKelvey

• Books by Doug 

  • Every Moment Holy, Volume 1

  • Every Moment Holy, Volume 2: Death, Grief, and Hope

  • The Angel Knew Papa and the Dog

• Liturgies read during the webinar:
  • A Liturgy Before Mourning With Those Who Mourn
  • A Liturgy for Embracing Both Joy and Sorrow

• Articles written by Doug: 

  • 100-Year Vision

  • On the Possibility of Being Met in Winter

• Resources mentioned by Doug 

  • Nicholas Wolterstorff: Lament for a Son

  • Article by Tim Keller about facing Death

  • Quote: ​“What is grief, if not love persevering?” — Vision on Wandavision

• Doug’s Website

• Every Moment Holy Website

Resources recommended by Carolyn Arends

• Songs about Grief and Loss 

  • Pool of Tears (webinar opening song)

  • To Cry For You

  • Let Love Lead You Home

  • We’ve Been Waiting for You

  • Just Getting Started

  • Information about Carolyn’s new albums

• Articles

  • Stoicism Isn’t Spiritual: What Grief is Teaching Me About Becoming Fully Human

  • Going Down Singing: Why We Should Remember That We Will Die

  • Allow for Space in the Music: Acknowledging the Mystery of Pain

• The current Renovaré Podcast includes a conversation with Carolyn about, among other things, grief.

• The Undertaking by Thomas Lynch

  • Quote: ​“Grief is the tax we pay on loving.”

• Frederick Buechner Quote: 

  • “We experience all the horrors that go on both around us and within us as horrors rather than as just the way the cookie crumbles because, in our innermost hearts, we belong to Holiness, which they are a tragic departure from.” (from Eyes of the Heart)

• Prayer by Dallas Willard:

My Prayer For You

That you would have a rich life of joy and power, abundant in supernatural results, with a constant, clear vision of never-ending life in God’s World before you, and of the everlasting significance of your workday by day.

A radiant life and radiant death.

- Dallas Willard

Other Resources Mentioned in the Webinar and Chat:

• Shirley Thiessen: The Little Black Funeral Dress — Five things I Wish I’d Known About Grief
• Macrina Wiederkehr: Gold in Your Memories: Sacred Moments
• Joseph Bayly: The View from a Hearse
• Thomas Lynch: The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
• Francis Weller: The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
• Atul Gawande: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
• Irvin D. Yalom: A Matter of Death and Life
• Article: Margaret Bennett: A Mother’s Lament to Her Son
• Movie: The Social Dilemma (Netflix)
  
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